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silence = death
Mathew Jones

Exhibition publication, 'silence = death', 1991, 200 Gertrude Street. Artwork courtesy and © Mathew Jones, 1991. Republished by Gertrude Contemporary in 2025 with the permission of the artist.
Exhibition publication, 'silence = death', 1991, 200 Gertrude Street. Artwork courtesy and © Mathew Jones, 1991. Republished by Gertrude Contemporary in 2025 with the permission of the artist.

3 May -
25 May 1991

200 Gertrude Street

200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

We rally to the slogan because they have forced us to, but keep the silence, as a place where we refuse to use their terms. 

Extracted from the accompanying artist authored photo essay silence = death (1991), published on the occasion of the exhibition by Mathew Jones, silence = death, 1991 at 200 Gertrude Street. 

Exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (1990), 200 Gertrude Street, Naarm Melbourne (1991) and reiterated with Stephen Little for 'Over My Dead Body,' Artspace, Sydney (1991). 

The project was assisted by the Australia Council, the Federal Government's Arts Funding & Advisory body.

200 Gertrude Street, Incorporating Gertrude Street Artists Spaces, gratefully acknowledged the assistance of the Victorian Ministry for the Arts, and the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council.

The Institute of Modern Art received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through the Ministry for the Arts and assistance from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council.

Artists

  • Mathew Jones

Gertrude thanks the artist Mathew Jones for contributing to this digital record in 2025 as part of the ongoing Gertrude Archive project and Past is Prologue: Four Decades of Gertrude.

Images courtesy of the artist and the Gertrude Archive. Images and materials for this record were digitised in 2025 by Mathew Jones and Sharon Flynn. 

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